Buhari is loved for INTEGRITY. If it is hard for you to understand love for integrity when you are voting for human beings who affect your destiny and your children's then you are under a curse.
It's the most important quality and it is so lacking in Nigeria amongst politicians.
People steal out if cowardice about the future, they steal because other people expect them to, most steal because tgey are lazy and can't compete on fair terms in life.

We are voting Buhari because he is one of the few amongst the Nigerian elite who can fish out pain and punishment to members of his class.

Henry240:

Really terrible. Good men lost, aircrafts we don't have also lost.

Very good men. Young families. Great loss.
The MI 35M is $35m. Has to be mechanical failure or a MANPAD.

ugo4u:

For now bokoharam don't have the capability/weapon to bring down an Aircraft save for AA which most atimes they don't have the requisite technical know-how to use it against an Aircraft, they usually use it for surface to surface engagements.
Most likely the crash will be as a result of poor weather or technical fault. I suspect the former, because visibility is too poor this season in the northeast.

Intelligent post.
Why did Boko Haram choose this period to attack far flung outposts I a serial manner?
Answer: Haramattan haze weather.

Same reason they were hoping the Air force would be too reluctant to launch sorties due to low visibility, they probably can shoot down planes with manual sighting AAAs. If this aircraft was shot down then a guided missile was probably used which is worrisome.

slimfit1:
Buy Apache helicopters, this will make book haram sit up. ( Image result for Apache helicopter

The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. Wikipedia
Top speed: 365 km/h
Unit cost: AH-64A: US$20 million (2007); AH-64D: US$33M (2010); AH-64E: US$35.5M (FY2014);
Did you know: The AH-64 Apache has a four-blade main rotor and a four-blade tail rotor. military.com)

Just to inform you, people have been posting this stuff for more than 10 years. Nigeria is not going to get Apache. The US is not selling it to Nigeria. They are not even selling choppers less capable than Apache. Nigeria should not even attempt to buy Apaches. They are capable but not useful to us and very expensive to operate and maintain.
The enemy is Boko Haram. It's not an invincible enemy. A little seriousness and discipline will defeat them.

Nigeria's main weapons acquisition haul for 2019 is coming from ECA savings of 2018 not 2019.

Ohhhhh Nooo!!!
This one hurts. That's a real collosus.

jesutakewe:


Mind you, tompolo isn't hiding from them. Tompolo was last year re-awarded the maritime contract for protection of the water ways as one of the conditions for AVENGERS ceasefire. How can you place someone on watchlist and still place him on your payroll? Tompolo was never wanted. Buhari was only doing initial gragra. When NDA showed him pepper he returned Tompolo's contract to him and ended his pursuit.

Ya but Tompolo will work for Buhari 're election in Delta. Abi they did not tell you that one.

Dino trusts in only Saraki and the fancy cars in his garage.

pacificman:
i support dino..when you are dealing with a dictator like buhari that disregards the rule of law and dino could be given the dasuki treatment,so i support dino to hide and wait until presidential election once buhari is kicked out he can come out

Ha ha ha.
I am sure you are under 25years of age posting this.
" ..support dino to hide and wait until presidential election once buhari is kicked out he can come out.."
Unbelievable childishness and naivety.

Really?
Most of the Boko Harams who attacked Nigeria Army installations in the North East are wasted. Dead. Killed by air strikes and special forces.
They are next level in hell.

The Nigerian soldiers were careless, stupid and unprofessional to have lost bases but it appears Bokos even more stupid and unprofessional to have lost all ground gained. The attacks were not even meant to achieve any objective but to embarrass.
Anyway they are at the "correct level" now.

Auxtin85:
Whoever predicted this still want to enjoy another 4yrs of suffering

Use your IQ sir. A prediction is a prediction. No sentiments, no moral judgements. That's why it's a prediction. Nigerian education dies not teach critical thinking but we should all try.

Lunch with jacket on. Okay o.

jayson87:
EGINA na GEJ's stuff... FACT CHECK

TOTAL E&P stuff. Not GEJ, not PMB.

Brass LNG was GEJ - Not done
Olokola LNG was OBJ/GEJ - Not done
Bonny LNG Train 7 GEJ - Not done.

GEJ added not one single barrel in terms of new projects or additional crude oil reserve to Nigeria in six years.
Even OBJ and Abacha achieved far more.

We will leave GEJ alone to God onky he knows the truth and emotions, sentiment and propaganda don't count with him.

couragemurphy:
EGINA FIRST OIL CONFIRMED...... +200,000bopd

God Bless TEPNG
God Bless SAI BABA 4+4
God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria
And God bless all Patriotic Nigerians that are happy to hear/believe such good news

4+4 = Ne×t Le✔el



EGINA FLARE BURNING BRIGHT

Are they actually making 200,000 barrels per day now?. Please confirm your figures

Atiku to actually lose Benue narrowly. Lagos and FCT are narrow possibilities for Atiku by the faintest of margins.
In any case, we are not having a President Atiku ever in Nigeria. Pipe dream.

Henry240:

I think i agree with you. However we're stuck in a very terrible situation. The Nigerian army is doing so badly in the prosecution of this insurgency that we're going to be negotiating from a position of weakness.

We need a complete overhaul of the military. Buratai is completely out of ideas and his league. We desperately need a change of leadership, training, equipment and doctrine.

See how the military keeps losing equipment, it's embarrassing.

Agreed. Buratai is behaving like Mourinho. If your original approach was wrong, humble yourself, admit it and make changes.
The spread-out, man every square feet of territory is not so bad but it calls for a level of commitment in air support and intersecting forces the NA never planned for.

We also seem to have recruited a lot of jokers into the Nigerian Army. Kids who will sleep on duty, not do basic base defence, run from the enemy in slippers and post videos of themselves in slippers saying unprofessional things.
It is actually a disgrace to this generation.
Nigerians have no sympathy for a soldier telling us he ran, 70 of his comrades are killed and he is running back home. Meanwhile you are carrying a Beryl rifle all this while and your colleague in same video has the latest RPG.
This same national attitude of indiscipline, weakness, lack of endurance and lousiness is reflected in poor maintenance of refineries and power plants. Meanwhile, the Boko Haram boys putting them to flight to capture their heavier weapons are of same age, less pampering, probably more ideological and spiritual fervour.

We hear a whopping N380bn now being spent on hardware. This should just be a tip of the iceberg. A full 're engineering of processes, TTTPs, and standards is required especially in the conduct of COIN.

Trickle down corruption is hard to change but Nigeria will succeed. Atiku is NOT an option

There is nothing compellingly existential or fundamental driving Atiku presidency. He is a very ordinary Nigerian politician doing ordinary things the way they have been done between 1999 and 2015.

The economy is improving in spite of pockets of hardship in a few urban areas caused by old structural hangups. People don't want to change old jobs, old business lines, old corruption networks and yet they are complaining.

The SE and SS are actually recovering faster economically than other areas and it is a big problem with trying to demarket Buhari in some PDP strongholds.
Major markets have solar power, Innoson is being patronised, Niger bridge is going up and agric has taken off.

More importantly, Obi's emergence will send more than ten major SE politicians to political death and it's NOT going to happen. These are Governors who cooperated with Buhri to take out the IPOB menace that would have brought unbelievable destruction on the region just finally recovering from the effects of the civil war and successive govt neglects

The SW and North are actually where Atiku should be campaigning but he has ZERO value propositions for them. I will even say MINUS for the North apart from he himself being a northerners.

mrkia:
I thank Allah For Making Me And My Family Muslims

I agree with you in a way. Modern Muslims are more accepting of God's will in their lives. Christians in a modern era think they are in a business relationship with God and they can make any deal.

ayomilore:
This man prophecy is confusing...
1 buhari should go and rest
2 most eastern states to be won by APC at national level.
3 he sees most politicians in prison. Who will send them to prison? Atiku ba..

Buhari, go and rest is a prediction of health challenges NOT loss of elections.
All these predictions (not prophecies) are from the devil.
The only true prophecies from God are general, broad and not human calendar related and exhorting to holiness and righteousness.
"If this is not done, I will do this, thus saith the Lord..".
Thats a prophecy.

"In 2019, Mr X won't be able to make love to his wife.." Thats prediction and it's satanic and only complete fools take them serious.

All true prophecies should be like Pastor Adeboye's prophecy.
If to you a prophecy should be specific like ...someone will die, fail exams or lose elections, then you are unconsciously relating to a family background in witchcraft or idol worship.
You are a SENSATIONALIST not a Christian.

As for the 2019 elections, God is not a democrat. Democracy is an inferior way of choosing leaders. What we know is that God works in 7- year cycles. Maybe that's why most Presidents win second term or when they succeed an incumbent, their "era" spans about 7 years.

Aura2:


There was no recession in Nigeria in 1983

Yes. Knowledgeable people are now say I g this. No recession in 1983. There was a near recession in 1982 under NPN. Nigerians of these generation dwell in ignorance. It is pathetic because this is the age of knowledge and innovation. That is why LIES based on ignorance get repeated by mentally lazy people.

I was in university in 1983. My parents were middle class. There was shortage of "essential commodities" mainly FMCG. The ones as I 'remembered were milk, sugar and some toilet soaps. That was all the effect of Buhari's belt tightening.
The interesting thing was these commodities were being made in Nigeria by WAMCO, Tate & Lyle and Flour mills and what the FG then was working with MAN to support all local manufacturers for massive expansion. It was the BANNING of locally produced consumer goods and the temporary shortages caused by trying to encourage import substitution that ignorant young Nigerians are now calling RECESSION.

I hate to be insultive but it is a class thing. If 1984/1984 was difficult for you then you or your parents were small scale TRADERS not educated enough to understand the economic policies of the times. You or your parents were also likely economic saboteurs who were smuggling competitive things to those being produced locally to dedtroy the local manufacturers. You or your parents were also likely to be "import license resellers" selling paper to other paper buyers in one of the most destructive urban rackets brought by the precedimg decadent ruling NPN administration.

What childish rubbish is this?. Is this thread for kindergartens?. KEYSTONE BANK has been looking for a buyer for 5 years. Praying for a buyer. How do you corruptly buy a bank that is on the market?

Mumu post. What's the timeline for your dream?. Buhari WON'T be President in 2023, that's for sure. Did you see Atiku or any other as replacing Buhari?

tuniski:

Don't mind them. They don't know how deeply the state is pdp on election day they will know!

The rigging fraud serially perpetrated by PDP since 1999 will be exposed this elections. Please save this "Akwa Ibom deeply PDP comment". We shall see.

I understand new rich farmers are actually the vanguard that will return Buhari in the middle belt. In spite of PDP sponsored ethnic clashes, too many people have become rich due to Buhari's agric policies.

jude79:
we eat 90% foreign rice, but according to our pastor vp, we import 10% foreign rice. question; how?

Smuggling.

abbeg:
Why dont they buy used sea harriers? Only 1.5million $ a piece.Much better and more powerful than alpha jet.

UK not selling sea harriers. Sea Harriers are very old aircraft and not that much better than Alpha Jet. Their only advantage is vertical take off and ability to hide behind tall hills and swoop on the enemy

jakeporeshenko:
NAF Alpha jet, this airframe is one of the original haul of 24 acquired from France, you can tell by the rounded nose

Nigeria needs six more pre-owned but modernized Alpha jets for attrition replacement and CAS capability sustainance. They are coming very cheap and we need to load up on them and weaponize them with PGMs

FarahAideed:
the truthvisvthat Buharis poor leadership in the 80s completely vaporized the Nigerian middle class for over 20 years and the PDP actually revived the middle class only for Buhari to again completely erode the middle within 3 years ..

This is an idiotic statement and you have just told us that Buhari will win next elections hands down.
NPN vaporized the middle class and they were two stupid to reply with their votes and then NPN rigged elections all over the West. Still no reply from middle class.

The middle class is the problem with Nigeria. Lazy, entitled, satisfied with crumbs from the ruling class who are actually less intelligent than middle class people.
It's a funny narrative. I think the black man is just a lazy, un emancipated buffin. Food, sex, parties and the brain eill go to sleep. Last week I met numetous tradesmen who consider themselves lower class but successfully combining factory jobs with their professional trades and even doing commercial agriculture on the side.
I have stopped feeling sorry for office bound middle middle people.

Destiny stealing, generation enslaving party. Your cup will soon be full.

That's a joker talking about scrapping toll gates. I keep saying that Agbaje is likeable but he cannot be Governor of Zamfara State not to talk of Lagos.
He does not have the make up to run the government machinery of a mega city.

Covert1:


Actually it's obvious to all who's mudslinging here.

I coined the term The Buharist. It is now pervasive by people like you whose emotions blind them to the facts. Emotions can't tell fiction from facts, impossible.

Mr Buharist I live in Nigeria. An objective assessment devoid of ethnic and religious sentiments is that things are worse off now than they were 4 years ago. And this cuts across all sectors of the economy which affects both rich and poor. I hear your cousin talking of an economy that benefits the rich in urban centers forgetting that if private enterprise is allowed to thrive with the right governmental policies it drives growth across board which translates to more money in the pocket and with more money in the pocket people's spending power increases which in turn translates to better living standards that contributes positively to your human development index(HDI) something which has collapsed across the board under this administration. A commoner once told me "we have since past this stage of hunger in Nigeria" referring to how bad things are in Nigeria under Buhari. You want the reality go on the street and find out the facts not rant here on nairaland without any evidence to back up your claims rather condescend to bitter insults.

That a recession happened twice in Nigeria is a fact and happened under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari as Head of State and President. That tells the mentality of the man. Six months into this administration I publicly stated I'll never talk again about this government because it will amount to nothing. And I was proven right. You are living an Alice in Wonderland Story if you delude yourself further.

In the current Nigeria my personal support to certain families have increased because of joblessness thus affecting my own estate. You think sentiments make great nations! Nigeria will forever be a moribund state because of people like you who will support mediocrity over competence because of the language a man speaks. Look at the analysis following Peter Obi and Yemi Osinbajo debates and you see ethnicity coming to the fore from those defending different positions when everyone knows clearly who won that debate.

Don't tell me about economic matters as clearly you know nothing. Right now as we speak there's no electricity and that alone is enough reason not to vote the man back in power that's how it's done in saner climes. A people is only as good as its leadership. You get what you vote in and don't come complaining rather make a change at the next balloting and be free.

BIG LIES popping.

I keep saying the median IQ in Nigeria is low that is why people pass on FALSEHOOD like a relay race.. They told you Buhari caused recession twice and you just brainlessly repeated it.
What is a "recession" and what does the word "cause" mean?. A recession is three quarters of negative GDP growth and it is usually not caused by the administration voted in to solve the problem.

2014 recession cause = PDP (Goodluck Jonathan)


Buhari caused no recession in 1983.
NPN caused the recession of 1983.
No knowledgeable person is denying it. We were saddled with short term debt by NPN looters and suddenly oil price came down to $9 a barrel. Banks were not honouring our L/Cs. One NPN minister (Umaru Dikko) was responsible for bringing imported rice into Nigeria in a value equal to the entire foreign exchange earnings for 6 months.

All petroleum exporting countries felt the shock of oil price crash . The situation that caused 1983 economic recession for Nigeria was the same as in we saw in 2014 - an import dependent economy, a weak and stupid President in power, looting by members of the ruling party and BOOM.. poverty.

1983 recession cause = NPN (Shehu Shagari)

Nigeria has an economy dependent on one international product. That is the problem.
We know Buhari has improved AGRO exports by 300% and is bringing down rice imports.
What will also help is massive INFRASTRUCTURE construction being done that will not only improve internal economic efficiency but also bring service sector jobs. Railways, their terminals and connecting transportation is a good example of service sector jobs. The great danger us that technology is wiping out jobs globally. All jobs are under threat.
If you want to solve Nigeria's problem, do public infrastructure and get a lot of small holders doing farming.

Atiku and his crooked/scared shitless team (They are all owing banks or have EFCC cases) don't just have a clue.

If I build a factory today, it will take 10 times LESS manpower than three years ago. Technology is wiping out jobs fast.Jobs are dying. Jobs are dying. Jobs are dying. Get your heads screwed on right.

For you office bound, semi idle, non innovative urban dwelling middle class, your problems are many and it is NOT Buhari.
You need paradigm shift.
Artificial Iintelligence is here and your job will disappear. Not may dusappear, WILL DISAPPEAR.
It is not an insidious threat. It will suddenly happen and the global billionaires pouring money into the Industry 4.0 technologies, AI, et.c don't give a damn that you were too weak to feed yourselves under PDP or run your scrappy refineries.

THERE IS A LARGER, MORE OMINOUS GLOBAL CONTEXT THAT WILL DEVELOP BETWEEN 2021 UPWARDS.

I see nothing in PDP manifesto about re-skilling, about small holder agric, small holder AGRO processing, renewable energy. They want to repeat the mistake of 2010 in 2019. It will hurt.

Everybody use your head. We are already seeing that tradesmen - auto mechanics, electricians and plumbers are doing better than office-based, fixed income pen pushers who can no longer steal money due to Buhari reforms but from 2021, even that your job is going.

A courageous, truth seeking person eill see that all Buhari is doing is setting the economy on a sound footing with some temporary hardship. He himself has admitted that there is hardship. My addition to that is whoever taught you there is progress without hardship has destroyed your life.